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Invitation to Tender:
Water for Tomorrow
Options Development
Published: 22 September 2021
Background
Water Resources East (WRE) is a partner in the Interreg Water for Tomorrow (WfT)
project, along with the Environment Agency and Rivers Trust (lead partner). WfT
aims to increase access to water in water scarce catchments in the France
(Channel) England region, with long-term benefits that include resilience to
climate change and drought.
To achieve these aims, WfT will develop new tools for abstractors that will better
enable them to access and share water once the needs of the environment have
been met. These include:
• Multi-sector water resource management plans. These will determine how
much water is available & when, how much is required & when and
preferred options for reconciling the two.
• For options based on water sharing, a new Catchment Management System
(CMS). This will use agreed rules for allocating the available water, which
will be based on a combination of abstraction licencing strategies and the
new multi-sector water resource management plans.
The WfT programme is based on the following Work Packages (WPs):
1. WP M: Project Management (responsible partner: The Rivers Trust)
2. WP T1: Water Resource Planning (responsible partner: BRGM)
3. WP T2 Water Resources Management Systems (responsible partner: WRE)
4. WP T3 Management System Implementation (responsible partner: EA)
5. WP C: Communication (responsible partner: The Rivers Trust)
A full list of WPs is provided in Annex A.
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Within these WPs, WRE is either lead or co-lead on the following:
• T1.2.2 (Water Resource Models): co-lead on the development of technical
models within the Broadlands Rivers catchments with a specific focus on
developing hydrological, public water supply, agriculture, climate change
and growth metrics
• T2.1.3 (Decision Support Models): lead on the development of complex
decision support models (Catchment Management System) in the EN
Broadland Rivers catchment pilot, and
• T3.1.2 (New Data Management and Decision Support Systems): lead on
implementing a Catchment Management System that utilises smart
technology and new data sources to enable a flexible approach to water
allocation and rapid water sharing during periods of water scarcity
Procurement
This Invitation to Tender is a supporting task to the first and second WPs:
• Options development
The detailed specification for Options Development is set out in Annex B.
Tenders should be submitted to kirstygoddardholmes@wre.org.uk by midday on
Thursday 7th October 2021. Note that WRE is not bound to accept any tenders
if it so chooses to do so.
Tenders should include the following:
• Technical methods
• Anticipated data and model requirements
• Project governance, including named project manager and project director
• Detailed programme
• Staff members who will deliver the work
• Financial proposal including staff rates, hours and expenses
• Review of risks and how risk will be managed
• Previous staff and corporate experience (do not send generic information
or brochures)
Tenderers are welcome to partner with other organisations where good value can
be demonstrated.
WRE Terms and Conditions will be used for the contract and will be provided
separately.
Evaluation criteria are set out in Annex C.
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Programme
The programme for all three WRE-led tasks is provided below.
Deadline (end of T1.2.2 Water T2.1.3 Decision Options
month) Resource Model Support Model Development
September / Procurement completed and contracts awarded
October 2021
October 2021 Commence liaison Scoping workshop Generic options
with participatory
modelling task WRE options
November 2021 Draft scoping report Draft scoping report workshops
December 2021 Final scoping report Final scoping report Option refinement
January 2022
February 2022 WRE catchment
March 2022 workshops
April 2022 Draft model & Draft model & Draft report &
report report database
May 2022 BVA report Final model & Final report &
report database
June 2022 FVA report
July 2022 Final model &
report
August 2022
September 2022 Planning workshops
October 2022 Workshop report
3Annex A: Full list of WfT deliverables with WRE deliverables highlighted
Work Package Reference Deliverable Number Deadline
T1 Water Resource T1.2.1 Water System 5 no. December
Planning Visualisation Models 2021
T1.2.2 Water Resource 3 no. June 2022
Models (WRE co-lead)
T1.2.3 Guidance Resource Pack 1 no. March
2023
T2 Water Resource T2.1.1 Water Resource 5 no. March
Management Management Strategies 2023
Systems T2.1.2 Data Review Workshop 5 no. August
2021
T2.1.3 Decision Support 2 no. October
Models (WRE lead) 2022
T2.1.4 Guidance Resource Pack 1 no. March
2023
T3 Management T3.1.1 New Data Collection 3 no. March
System Process 2023
Implementation T3.1.2 New Data Management 3 no. March
and Decision Support 2023
System (WRE lead)
T3.1.3 Implementation of Water 5 no. March
Resource Management 2023
Strategies
T3.1.4 Guidance Resource Pack 1 no. March
2023
4Annex B: Specification for Options Development task
General Approach
The purpose of this task is to develop a set of options that can be incorporated in
the water resources model and evaluated in the decision support tool. There is a
focus on water quantity in the models, but options that also benefit water quality
and habitats are particularly welcome.
The model needs to be developed for a set of Broadland catchments (see Annex
D), but it is important that lessons are learnt for future application to other
catchments. For example, the initial option development list could be generic,
whilst the Option screening task could be specific to each catchment.
Tasks
1. Confirm approach:
The approach should broadly follow standard WRMP options
development and screening procedures but must build on insights
from the stakeholder interviews (part of T1.2.1) and the scoping
phase of the decision support tool. In addition, the approach
should have reference to the WRE regional options, WRMP options,
and nature-based solutions included in the Norfolk Water Strategy
Programme. There are also opportunities to link with the WRE
local/catchment workshops. A detailed list of data requirements
should be presented at the earliest opportunity.
2. Option development, including for the following:
• Demand management, for both household and non-household water
users
• New winter storage reservoirs including agricultural reservoirs
• Raw or treated water transfers
• Water re-use and desalination
• New or revised groundwater abstractions (including “sustainability
reductions”)
• New or revised surface water abstractions (including “sustainability
reductions”)
• Reductions in licenced abstraction quantities (referred to as
“sustainability changes”)
• Licence aggregation
• Water sharing, including re-allocation of the resources which are
available once the needs of the environment have been met
• River restoration and other works designed to protect or enhance in-
stream and riparian habitats
• Other environmental options such as wetlands
• Land management techniques that promote recharge or slow flows
to rivers, including links to Defra Environmental Land Management
schemes
5• Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)
• Sustainable urban drainage and stormwater management
New options should also be sought through engagement with
abstractors and catchment stakeholders.
3. Option screening:
Options should be screened against criteria including technical
feasibility and environmental impact. This should result in a set of
feasible options for each catchment. Two stages of screening may
be required.
4. Reporting:
An options database should be developed providing relevant
information about each option including cost, benefit in water
quantity terms, ancillary benefits to water quality and ecology,
carbon, timescale for deliverability, and other relevant factors. A
rejection register or rejection field should be incorporated, including
the reasons for screening out (generically and for each catchment).
A technical report should provide a summary of the option types,
number of options and their potential contribution to solving supply-
demand deficits in each catchment.
6Annex C: Evaluation Criteria
Element Criteria Description Proportion of
total score
Quality Technical Understanding of requirements 30% 70%
method and clear proposal to deliver
Governance Project management structure 5%
and experience in key roles
Programme Realistic programme that 5%
meets required deadlines
Staff Qualifications and level of 10%
staffing
Risk Understanding and proposed 5%
management management
Previous Quality of recent relevant 15%
experience experience
Cost Price Total price and value for 30% 30%
money considering staff input
and experience
TOTAL 100% 100%
7Annex D: Broadland catchments
The Broadland catchments comprise the catchments of the rivers Bure, Waveney,
Wensum and Yare. It is intended that catchment models will be produced for all
4 catchments, at least to their tidal limits.
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